Activation and inhibition of the receptor histidine kinase AgrC occurs through opposite helical transduction motions

Molecular Cell

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 929-940

  Wang, Boyuan ^a,b   Zhao, Aishan ^a   Novick, Richard P ^c   Muir, Tom W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIONIC LIPID; AUTOINDUCING PEPTIDE I; AUTOINDUCING PEPTIDE II; LIPID; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; RECEPTOR HISTIDINE KINASE AGRC; RECEPTOR HISTIDINE KINASE AGRC I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; LIGAND BINDING; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; EXERCISE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGANDS; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84896375166     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.02.029     Document Type: Article

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